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A 62 year old woman smokes a pack of cigarettes per day and has a BP 138/88 mm Hg.  She has no symptoms of CAD, but a recent LDL level was 154 mg/dL (3.98 mmol/L). Based on these findings, the nurse would expect a treatment plan would be initiated by PCP. Which treatment would be used first for this patient?

The nurse is caring for a patient who is in sickle cell crisis.  What action by the nurse takes priority?

After obtaining client histories, which client does the nurse identify as having the highest risk for CAD?

A client is admitted to the hospital for evaluation of chest pain. EKG indicated ST depression. What additional test would the nurse expect to perform first to differentiate between unstable angina and NSTEMI.

At extremely high temperatures (e.g., millions of degrees), which of the following best describes the phase of matter?

Star X has a smaller parallax angle than star Y. What can you conclude?

Newton’s version of Kepler’s third law states says that the orbital period depends on what quantities?

What kind of pressure prevents a white dwarf from collapsing?

 After a supernova explosion, the remains of the stellar core can be ________.

Why would we expect WIMPs to be distributed throughout a galaxy’s halo, rather than settled into a galaxy’s disk?